Reading List: Why baseball players are underpaid

Matthew O'Brien isn't about to join the chorus of complaints over the salaries of baseball players. After all, they lag their professional athlete peers in the metric that matters: average payroll as a percentage of revenue. The Atlantic

Despite the fact that the dollar has been on a downward trend since 2002, resistance from Beijing to make the yuan freely convertible in global markets and the current uncertainty over the future of the euro, mean that the dollar's status as the global reserve currency will remain in tact – for now. Harvard Blog Review

Here's one of 50 things about today's economy that ‘blows' Morgan House's mind: "According to Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill, China's growth creates the equivalent of a new Greece every 90 days." The Motley Fool

Even though opinions differ about just how far China's economy will fall, one thing's certain: "it is time for China to bite the bullet and move ahead on politically difficult, painful reforms that could lay the foundation for sustainable growth in the future." TIME